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This manuscript is a fourteenth-century or very early fifteenth-century copy of Arnaldus de Villanova's guide to health for James II, King of Aragon from 1291 to 1327, on topics such as bathing, eating, drinking, and sleeping. This guide, referred to in the manuscript both as Liber de conservatione sanitatis and Regimen generale (fols. 1r-26r), is followed by the much briefer Regimen speciale (fols. 26r-28v), which, unlike the main text, mostly consists of recipes. The text is written in two columns of a rounded Gothic script with the start of chapters marked by alternating red and blue initials.
Support: Parchment; Extent: i+28+i; 185 × 125 mm bound to 190 x 135 mm; Foliation: Modern foliation in pencil, [i, 1–29], upper center or right recto; Collation: 1-3 (8), 4 (4); Catchwords: Horizontal, lower right last verso, framed by simple rectangles of black and red ink (fols. 8v, 16v, 24v)
Two columns of twenty-seven lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines; written area: 135 × 90mm
Gothic--rotunda
One large puzzle initial in red and blue, with penwork flourishing in red and purple and a vertical extension of half-fleurs-de-lis alternately blue or red (fol. 1r); chapters with two-line initials alternately red with purple penwork flourishing, or blue with red penwork; rubrics in red; capitals stroked in red
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Paper flyleaves
Front and back flyleaves foliated as fol. i and fol. 29
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Spain or southern France
14th century or circa 1400
Twentieth-century marbled grey paper over pasteboards, the spine formerly with a titlepiece, now missing
Latin
Purchased by the College of Physicians in 1920 (College of Physicians bookplate, inside back cover)
Spain or southern France
14th century or circa 1400
Latin
Purchased by the College of Physicians in 1920
This manuscript is a fourteenth-century or very early fifteenth-century copy of Arnaldus de Villanova's guide to health for James II, King of Aragon from 1291 to 1327, on topics such as bathing, eating, drinking, and sleeping. This guide, referred to in the manuscript both as Liber de conservatione sanitatis and Regimen generale (fols. 1r-26r), is followed by the much briefer Regimen speciale (fols. 26r-28v), which, unlike the main text, mostly consists of recipes. The text is written in two columns of a rounded Gothic script with the start of chapters marked by alternating red and blue initials.
Paper flyleaves
Front and back flyleaves foliated as fol. i and fol. 29
Gothic--rotunda
One large puzzle initial in red and blue, with penwork flourishing in red and purple and a vertical extension of half-fleurs-de-lis alternately blue or red (fol. 1r); chapters with two-line initials alternately red with purple penwork flourishing, or blue with red penwork; rubrics in red; capitals stroked in red
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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